US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Facilitating device fingerprinting through assignment of fuzzy device identifiers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,196, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Facilitating device fingerprinting through assignment of fuzzy device identifiers" was invented by Ram Prasad Sunkara (Sammamish, Wash.), Shoou-Jiun Wang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jayaram NM Nanduri (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various device attributes associated with a current event may be obtained. Similarity metrics may be determined that indicate a degree of similarity between the device attributes that are associated with the current event and stored device attributes that are associated with previous events and previousl...